Blackmagic Design has just announced this the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD recorder and playback device
a lot of people have been asking for an easy and portable way of bringing in videos to their
ATEM Mini setups Blackmagic have answered your prayers this is it and in this video I'm going to
go through the tech specs talk about some of its capabilities and some of the brand new features
jam-packed into this device and why i think it might just be the perfect device to sit alongside
your existing ATEM Mini setup let's get straight into it so firstly let's talk about some of the
tech specs and the features that you can find in this and what is it. It is a Hyperdeck so that
means that you'll be able to both record and play back video using this despite its tiny size and
if we look at the back here we've got both an HDMI input and an HDMI output i'll talk about
some of the other ports in a second if we look at the recording side first the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD
actually records up to 1080p 60 frames per second in a number of different formats it supports
H.264, ProRes and DNX. So that's the recording covered it will record onto either the SD card
with the SD card slot at the back of the device and also at the back of the device is a USB-C port
just like you've got on the ATEM Mini and you can plug in the same as you do with the ATEM Mini an
external SSD or an external hard drive and write directly onto that as well they will work fine
for your recordings but where i think this device gets really interesting is less with the recording
and more with the video playback side of things i think that's where a lot of the ATEM Mini users
will really want to pick one of these up as a way of playing videos into your
ATEM Mini for live streams and recordings so for that you have the HDMI out on the back of
the device as well as also the ethernet port as well so you can still connect this to your network
and trigger the video playback and selecting which video file you want to play off the card and
things like that all the transport controls can be done in the ATEM software control over the network
but where the beauty of this thing really lies is actually the transport controls on the device
itself so on the front you've got the really large jog wheel which you can obviously use to navigate
between clips and also jog and scrub through the clips themselves and you've got these very
large transport buttons for skip, play, back buttons and you might also notice at the top
of the device itself there is a menu and a set button and they're actually recessed into the
device and the reason for that i felt really was cleverly done by the Blackmagic team it's because
obviously there's no LCD screen on the device itself so to access the menu
it actually appears on the HDMI output just at the bottom left corner of on your screen and you don't
want to accidentally press that button during a live broadcast or when you have that shot live
so they recess those buttons into the device so they're not accidentally triggered but it means
when you you're not on that camera or if you've got it plugged into a different display it's a
very easy simple way of bringing up the menu on screen and then navigating through it so i thought
that was a really clever in the design aspect also just looking at this thing it's designed you can
very clearly tell designed with the ATEM Mini in mind it's the same size as an ATEM Mini Extreme
in terms of width so sits perfectly and nicely it's built to be sat on a desk next to it let's
talk about some of the other capabilities of this as well especially in the video playback side of
things you've got the jog and scroll buttons that allow you to easily navigate between multiple
different files that you might have across either the SD card or the SSD that you have plugged into
the usb on the back so it's very easy to actually find different video clips and you have different
speeds that you can do that the other button i actually liked on here as well is the clip
button and if you enable that it will mean that when the Hyperdeck gets to the end of the clip it
won't just skip straight back on or straight on to the next clip it will actually hold at the end of
the clip and that's quite important especially if you're going to be using this in a live broadcast
environment when you get to the end of a video clip you usually want it to pause you can cut away
onto a live camera for example so they've included that feature in there as well okay
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big thanks to QNAP for sponsoring so let me talk about that one big feature that blew
my mind because this thing has a teleprompter built in yes you heard me correct a teleprompter
you can actually put onto the SD card or again ssd a dot rtf which is a standard rich text file
or a txt file which is a plain text file and it doesn't matter what formatting or text size you've
used in there you can actually put colors in those text files and that will appear in the Hyperdeck
as well but you basically create your text file load it as a file onto the Hyperdeck and it will
play back as if it was a video and the fantastic thing about it is you can actually use that jog
dial on the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD to control the speed and manually control it as well
and then the killer thing that i heard grant say you sort of slipped it in i didn't pick it
up at first in the announcement is that if you go into the menu of the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD and
go into this teleprompter mode you actually can enable image flip as well so if you're using this
with a teleprompter for example you don't need to use a monitor that has the image flip capability
because the Hyperdeck can do it for you it can flip that and so you really do have a
very powerful teleprompter built into this device and when we come a little bit in a
little bit to talk about the price how much is jam packed into this device is really impressive
in my opinion and it really again does make it when you pair this with an 8m mini pair with an
ATEM Mini Extreme alongside the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD you've not just now got a playback device
but you've also got a teleprompter for your talent it's starting to to get that your ATEM mini setup
that you could pretty much put in a bag in a suitcase or in a small flight case is becoming
more powerful than the bigger ATEM setup that all might change next week by the way because nab big
broadcasting show in las vegas it's almost certain that we're going to see some of these features
trickle up into the bigger broadcast i might even do a video about that who knows but for now we'll
concentrate on the hyperdeck shuttle hd but i did want to give this feature a mention because
i think it's fantastic having a teleprompter in this in a device that size it's amazing
and i think it makes total sense because again you could just give someone this essential like
essentially it's like a puck size device and say okay you run the teleprompter that is pretty much
in a nutshell all of the new features and what is inside this brand new hyperdeck shuttle hd device
i'm very as you sure you can tell very excited by it when i saw it pop up on screen i was instantly
like yes because i know how many people have been calling out for a desktop device that can just
sit alongside their ATEM Mini and play videos into it the recording side doesn't excite me that much
but it's nice to have that functionality in there it still has functionality like the ftp server as
well so if you connect this device to your network you can also access all of the recordings via the
network without having to remove the ssd or having to remove the sd card as well and also something
to mention that sd card slot does accept sd cards standard sd cards but also UHS-1 and UHS-2 cards
two so if you want to use those higher speed cards that's supported within the Hyperdeck Shuttle HD.
So the very last thing to talk about then is of course the price and it's available
for $495 dollars in the us or about £409 pounds in the uk and i'm gonna keep my verdict on this
short but sweet for everything that is packed inside this Hyperdeck Shuttle HD i think it's
worth the money and i certainly will be getting one so let me know what you think of this device
is it missing anything are you gonna pick one up for your ATEM Mini setup i would love to know your
thoughts get them down in the comments below and of course as soon as i get one of these i will do
a full review of the physical product and let you know what i think after using it for some
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